James Lasdun

Woman Police Officer in Elevator

Poems

"American readers who want to see rejuvenated form in untroubled action, giving brisk shape to contemporary and classical events, will find it in Lasdun." —Helen Vendler

With this, his second collection of poetry, James Lasdun consolidates his reputation as a writer of rich, emotionally charged poems of utter virtuosity. The poems in this book concern themselves with transformations, dislocations, and metamorphoses. Vividly rendered landscapes from Tuscany to New Jersey evolve into meditations on love, myth, and sexual and social politics.

Woman Police Officer in Elevator is a rigorous and compelling mix of the classical and the cosmopolitan.

James Lasdun is the author of the book of poems A Jump Start (Norton) and two works of fiction, Delirium Eclipse and Three Evenings. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997. He was born in London and now lives in Woodstock, New York.

1998 / paperback / ISBN 0-393-31838-9 / 5" x 8" / 72 pages / Poetry